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VTC 8: The Upper Dolenjska wine route
This route connects villages and vineyards in the upper Dolenjska hills: it leads from the
town of Krško through Leskovec to Raka, Bučko, Studenec and Malkovec, then turns near
Mokronog into the large viticultural centre of Šentrupert with the hill Vesela gora, then
goes across Kaldje, Boštanj and Veliki trn back to Krško. This is also a Cviček PTP area. I
agree with the writer Janez Trdina, who said that the people in Dolenjska are jovial and if
they have their own vineyard, their social standing is immediately enhanced.
Brezovska gora, 2006. The glorification of Cviček in the form of folk theatre on St. Martin’s Day in Leskovec
Photo: Aleš Gačnik. near Krško, 2006. Photo: Aleš Gačnik.
My first encounter with Cviček was in the Brežice wine cellar. Later, as a researcher at the
Agricultural Institute in Ljubljana, together with the young oenologist Darko Marjetič,
I researched the composition of this wine so that its origin could be properly protected.
When our research, lasting a number of years, was finished, we were overtaken by the
agricultural secretariat which, following a proposal from the SloVino Institute, decreed that
Cviček could also come from the Bizeljsko-Sremiš district, not only Dolenjska. It was not
until after Slovenia’s independence that a young team from the wine cellar in Leskovec,
with a new study carried out at the Agricultural Institute, managed to get legal protection
of origin for this wine limited to the Dolenjska winegrowing district.
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VTC 8: The Upper Dolenjska wine route
This route connects villages and vineyards in the upper Dolenjska hills: it leads from the
town of Krško through Leskovec to Raka, Bučko, Studenec and Malkovec, then turns near
Mokronog into the large viticultural centre of Šentrupert with the hill Vesela gora, then
goes across Kaldje, Boštanj and Veliki trn back to Krško. This is also a Cviček PTP area. I
agree with the writer Janez Trdina, who said that the people in Dolenjska are jovial and if
they have their own vineyard, their social standing is immediately enhanced.
Brezovska gora, 2006. The glorification of Cviček in the form of folk theatre on St. Martin’s Day in Leskovec
Photo: Aleš Gačnik. near Krško, 2006. Photo: Aleš Gačnik.
My first encounter with Cviček was in the Brežice wine cellar. Later, as a researcher at the
Agricultural Institute in Ljubljana, together with the young oenologist Darko Marjetič,
I researched the composition of this wine so that its origin could be properly protected.
When our research, lasting a number of years, was finished, we were overtaken by the
agricultural secretariat which, following a proposal from the SloVino Institute, decreed that
Cviček could also come from the Bizeljsko-Sremiš district, not only Dolenjska. It was not
until after Slovenia’s independence that a young team from the wine cellar in Leskovec,
with a new study carried out at the Agricultural Institute, managed to get legal protection
of origin for this wine limited to the Dolenjska winegrowing district.
168
